Some Oldster-adjacent content, special for you. PLUS: "The Oldster Top 10," Cliff Chenfeld's monthly playlist of new songs for old ears.đź‘‚| Oldster Magazine
"Darnay and I had found our sea legs as 'old people.' We were looking forward to rambling around in the grocery store or Lowes. Playing with the grands. We had started doing photography together."| Oldster Magazine
"It’s hard feeling isolated in a roomful of partying people, and the hilarious thing is that that’s my job."| Oldster Magazine
On being the first woman editor-in-chief of an automotive magazine—except no one knew it.| Oldster Magazine
Approaching a biggish birthday, Abbe Aronson tries to finally find some inner peace and quiet. PLUS, a Friday Open Thread where you can chime in about your own experiences with meditation.| Oldster Magazine
"My husband likes carrot cake and sex on his birthday. I like to take a little trip somewhere cool and spend a couple of days exploring, with a great meal..."| Oldster Magazine
In which I inadvertently discover that at almost 60 I can still "get It" despite what the culture (and some exes) would have me believe. Random thoughts on older women + younger men, and vice versa.| Oldster Magazine
You say Friday Link Roundup. What to read, watch, and listen to this weekend...| oldster.substack.com
"I'm more free in my work now because I don't feel like I have to prove things."| Oldster Magazine
"I never set out to live in New York City, a place I had no affection for when I moved there in 1985." Michael Ruhlman wonders: How did I get here—a 411-square-foot apartment in Greenwich Village?| Oldster Magazine
Trying on clothes at Eileen Fisher; my ambivalence toward dressing "grown-up"; and challenging old assumptions. PLUS an open thread where you can chime in on your "age-appropriate" (or not) style.| Oldster Magazine
"Nothing is surprising about being a childless, queer Gen-X-er in my early 50s, because I grew up having no idea what my life would look like."| Oldster Magazine
"What's an angry woman to do?" Lauren K. Watel looks back at the anger that overcame her as a young wife and mother.| Oldster Magazine
Some Oldster-adjacent content to take you through the weekend and beyond. PLUS: "The Oldster Top 10," Cliff Chenfeld's monthly playlist of new songs for old ears.| Oldster Magazine
Sydney Lea reflects on the last words he heard from friend.| Oldster Magazine
"I feel young and old at the same time. Like I've got the whole box of age crayons at my disposal and can color both inside and outside the lines."| oldster.substack.com
Martha Bayne interviews 73-year-old aerial arts enthusiast Barbara Hague.| oldster.substack.com
Megan Stielstra on embodying many ages at once, and learning of Sinéad O'Connor's death the summer her father was dying. An excerpt of "Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O'Connor Means to Us"| Oldster Magazine
In his mid-50s Peter Barrett has traded his painting studio for the kitchen—now a site of fertile creative pursuit. PLUS an open thread about our own later-in-life creative shifts.| Oldster Magazine
PLUS This is 59: Gretchen Rubin Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire| Oldster Magazine
"Getting older *is* my identity. I’ve had the biggest success in my career promoting and uplifting women of a certain age.| Oldster Magazine
"I regret that I didn’t start writing earlier because I think writing is a tremendous aid in self-awareness."| oldster.substack.com
Gail Rice on finding her voice, and using it to ask for what she wants.| oldster.substack.com
Allyson McCabe interviews Canadian musician Amy Millan about her new record, "I Went To Find You," exploring love, loss, and how tending to old wounds can help open up new possibilities at any age.| oldster.substack.com
On First Love and Michael Jackson| oldster.substack.com
After recovering from breast cancer treatment in her 50s, Martha Bayne reclaims her right to take up space as a dancer.| oldster.substack.com
"You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older...and now you're even older...and now you're even older..." - "Older," They Might Be Giants| oldster.substack.com
"The actions of forgiveness, acceptance and letting go are crucial. I do them imperfectly, and will practice them—imperfectly—until I die."| oldster.substack.com
Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life. Click to read Oldster Magazine, by Sari Botton, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.| oldster.substack.com
(Unfortunately, not the fun kind.) An open thread about time's painful effects on our shoulders, hips, elbows, wrists, knees, ankles, etc., and what we're doing about it.| oldster.substack.com
Forty years ago, at 28, Michael Musto thought he was a has-been. Now 68, he reveals how he keeps adding new chapters to the consistently unfolding story of his career.| oldster.substack.com
On the brink of 60, while healing from unexpected surgery, Alison Krupnick bonds with her daughter’s molting orchid mantis.| oldster.substack.com
What are you giving loved ones this year? What gifts would you like to receive? An open thread. Plus, introducing the Oldster nameplate necklace, and other suggestions from the Ye Olde storefront...| oldster.substack.com
"I have scars from my Covid-era surgeries and will soon have another scar from my breast cancer surgery. In some ways, I view them the way some people view wrinkles, as evidence that I have lived."| oldster.substack.com
I Almost Don’t Care What You Think (of Me).| oldster.substack.com